Omar Zulaica is Head of Institutional Client Services at the BIS Banking Treasury. He sets the strategy for managing and expanding relationships with central banks and other official institutions and leads a team that delivers professional banking services including the placement of funds. He previously served as Adviser to the Head of Banking, was part of BIS Reserve Management Advisory Services and, earlier, served as Head of Strategic Asset Allocation at the Bank of Mexico. He holds a BSc in Actuarial Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford.